. Rapid economic development has boosted living standards and reduced poverty but poverty remains high. There is a need to … strengthen social welfare systems and access to health and education to ensure widespread benefits from continued high growth …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed … and, at the same time, working affects the health status. Because these two variables are determined simultaneously …

but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create …

stress causes poor health outcomes – either directly through increased blood pressure, fatigue, muscle pain, etc. or … health. Areas in which economists may provide valuable insights regarding job stress include empirical selection concerns in … identifying the effect of stress on health; measurement error with respect to stress; the existence and magnitude of compensating …

While past labour market reforms have been successful in terms of employment, the relative poverty risk and income … efficient and well-targeted redistribution; and to make health and old-age pension insurance more inclusive. This working paper …

among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a given level of spending outcomes fall short by around 3.5% in health care … surrounding input efficiency estimates is high for countries with the smallest scope for potential savings. Confidence intervals …

Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth … incentives for teachers. Performance of public services devoted to health and transports has been mixed. Public health services … effectiveness of social expenditures for reducing poverty and inequality. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic …

efficiency without undermining the quality of in kind services on secondary education, health care and public administration … regressive. The delivery of health care could be improved by rationalising inpatient care and enhancing costeffective primary … care, which would generate savings in the medium term. Further increasing the effective retirement age and reforming the …